This post will just be a few odds and ends photos and stories from the Okavango Delta.

Animals were harder to spot in the Okavango Delta than they were in Chobe National Park. That trend continued for each stop on our safari trip. That resulted in our safari guides being more creative about finding animals. They would look for animal tracks in the road and sometimes we would try and follow the tracks to find the animal. In this instance, our guide spotted a lion track and decided we would follow the tracks and try and find the lion, as our guide thought it a fresh track. We went off-road but in truth, there wasn’t much room off the road for our vehicle in this location. You can see us following lion tracks in the first photo. Our vehicle was pushing aside branches and bushes and we were dodging the branches and thorns as we went. We never found this lion but it was a great adventure trying to find it, very suspenseful and exciting.

This termite mound was probably twelve to fourteen feet high. Our guide said that the termite mounds are high due to the high water table in the Okavango. Termite populations are similar to bees in that they have a king, a queen, workers, soldiers, and flyers. Each type does its own job. Our guide also said that the queens can live for around thirty years. We saw lots of termite mounds on this trip but the highest mounds were in the Okavango.

Our game drives could last for six hours or more. Sometimes we ate lunch while out on the drives. In those instances, the trucks became our tables. We usually had cold food but sometimes they had hot food for us as well. Beverages included hot beverages, tea, soft drinks, beer and wine.

This trip was quite busy and we were always up early in the morning and frequently didn’t get back to our tents until nine at night. But I don’t want to give the impression that we didn’t have any time to relax and have a cocktail, game viewing optional.

Every single sunrise and sunset on this trip was a great one. This is the dry season and the Kalahari was dusty so there was plenty of smoke and dust in the air. But the sunrises and sunsets were really great. It was always a great start and great finish to each day of the trip.